One test of the legitimacy of claims about scientific matters is time. Over time, if a proposal about how nature works that buck the consensus is valid, it will be shown to be valid. If it is not, it will fail the test of time. Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics by Dana Nuccitelli looks at the predictions of those who have been denying the reality of climate change, comparing those predictions made by mainstream science. Read the book to find out who won!

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All useful titles (I have copies of each except the last) especially those exposing the deniers and their backers.

Here is my current list of titles, in no particular order, that describe denial, its propagators and financial backing. For which latter Jane Mayer’s excellent book ‘Dark Money’ should be added, perhaps.

‘The Inquisition of Climate Science’

James Lawrence Powell

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‘Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate’

Stephen H Schneider

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‘Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity’

James Hansen

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‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines’

Michael E Mann

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‘Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming’

Mark Bowen

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‘Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand’

Haydn Washington & John Cook

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‘Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco’

Naomi Oreskes & Eric M Conway

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‘Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming’

James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore

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‘The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth’

Eric Pooley

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‘Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America’

Shawn Lawrence Otto

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‘The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It’

John Mashey is another who has done sterling work in uncovering the money trails as well as assisting, along with DeepClimate, with the demolition of The Wegman Report also shedding additional unfavourable light on the activities of Steve McIntyre & co.

Peter Brannen’s The Ends of the World is a good, up-to-date and highly readable treatment of what perturbations of the carbon cycle (and a bolide impact) have done to biodiversity in the past. Highly recommended.

Thanks for the suggestions. I got about a dozen other suggestions via email, and I’ve got more of my own. I’m going to make a better formatted and more complete set of resources, and post that here and on the DFL Environmental Caucus blog.

There has been push-back against Extinction Rebellion from the usual suspects by promulgating a document titled ‘There is No Climate Emergency’, it kicks off with a lie and that is how it goes for two pages out of 19 with most being the list of the 500 names of signatories, so called scientists or professionals.

After a page of tilts against climate science as understood it descends into the Lomborgian:

Our advice to political leaders is
that science should strive for a
significantly better understanding
of the climate system, while
politics should focus on minimizing
potential climate damage by
prioritizing adaptation strategies
based on proven and affordable
technologies.

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Sometimes called the "fourth African ape," Sungudogo is not a Gorilla, not a Chimpanzee, not a Bonobo, and possibly not even real. Years ago, Sungudogo drew the interest of the world famous primatologist Dieter Phillips, who was funded by a secret society of "scholars and gentlemen" to launch an expedition to determine the veracity of this mysterious primate. Dieter never returned from that expedition, and as the years passed, the whole story drifted into obscurity. But the watchers were always watching, always waiting, for clues of the fate of this expedition. When new evidence came to light, the investigation was renewed into the outcome of Phillip's ill fated trek into the Rain Forest. Who better to follow Dieter Phillip's tracks than his former student, aided by an explorer and mercenary familiar with the area, assisted by two willing Congolese park guards?They were to learn things that went beyond their wildest imaginations, and they would discover secrets about Phillip's expedition, about the rift valley, about themselves, about humanity, that they would never be able to share but that would change their lives forever.